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I Ching: The Symbolic Life |  | Author: Stephen Karcher PhD
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 238
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Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 6.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 1439253463
Dewey Decimal Number: 133
EAN: 9781439253465
ASIN: 1439253463
Publication Date: October 22, 2009
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Product Description
I Ching or the Classic of Change is the world’s oldest and most sophisticated system of wisdom divination, source of the east’s philosophy and culture. It focuses on the part you play in change and transformation. When we experience ourselves as a victim of the changes in our world, we feel isolated and angry. When we become a part of the dialogue Change represents, we feel connected to the creative energy that shapes the world we live in. I Ching: The Symbolic Life gives you direct access to this dialogue through the myth and ritual world Change uses to model the Symbolic Life. Developed through years of scholarship and research and grounded in practical use, it can make Change a part of your daily life. It explains and presents the age-old symbols of I Ching in a step by step way that lets you use the images directly and intuitively. You do not really learn something, you experience something that is capable of working a profound transformation of your thought.
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Another Outstanding Karcher Translation July 11, 2010
Brahman
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Karcher's works are not precisely the same as the meanings you derive from the Wilhelm or Legge texts. They are generally far more mystical and include elements of Chinese shamanism. With that warning aside, This latest work is truly outstanding and compares favorably with his "Total I Ching" which has been my I Ching bible for a long time now. Graphically beautiful, poetically beautiful, mythologically accurate and shaministically correct, there is endless room in this book for exploration of every individual hexagram and each moving line. Amazingly, with all of this, the individual Hexagram discussions take up only three pages. Hence, you can spend as little or as much time on it as you wish. Karcher then goes beyond the call of duty to demonstrate how the moving lines fit seamlessly into hexagram pairings in the second half of the book. Either this book or Karcher's "Total I Ching: Myths for Change" or BOTH should be on the bookshelf of every dedicated I Ching enthusiast or scholar. I would also recommend Karcher's "Symbols of Love": an I Ching devoted to personal relationship questions, now, sadly, out of print but still obtainable on Amazon.
Clearing away the clouds February 23, 2010
C. Reed (Warner Springs)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have been traveling with the I Ching for forty years - mostly using the Wilhelm/Baynes edition and often feeling I was missing something important; enthralled, but wondering if I was always getting the full picture, the full impact of the oracle. It was hit or miss.
Stephen Karcher's research into the early pre-Confusian, Taoist roots of the I Ching, blazes a trail which for myself at least, has opened me to the amazing power of this amazing tool. I would say that this book, and another work of Karcher's - Total I Ching: Myths for Change - are indispensable for any serious student of the I Ching.
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